Status Updates From La guerre du Golfe n'a pas ...

“This is the law of democracy and the new world order. In this sense, the Iran-Iraq war was a successful first phase: Iraq served to liquidate the most radical form of the anti-western challenge, even though it never defeated it”

“The decisive stake in this whole affair is the consensual reduction of Islam to the global order. Not to destroy but to domesticate it, by whatever means”

“Deterrence itself. It only functions well between equal forces... It is therefore the dissemination of (atomic) weapons alone which can ensure effective global deterrence… The present politics of non-dissemination plays with fire: there will always be enough madmen to launch an archaic challenge below the level of an atomic riposte- witness Saddam”

USA builds up saddams military then destroys the regime. Yet confused when the following warlords/terrorists obtain what remains of the armament.

“Wars” in the Middle East as police operations to “domesticate Islam”. Saudi Arabia?